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Why did Michelangelo put horns on his sculpture of Moses?

April 26, 2017horns michelangelo Moses SCULPTURE

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Why did Michelangelo put horns on his sculpture of Moses?

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Michelangelo followed the earlier medieval painters in depicting Moses with horns. Perhaps he knew that in the antique world a horned head often symbolized divinity, honor and power, and kept the horns for that reason.